Tokyo DispatchJapan, in EnglishThe Toho kaiju film took the No. 1 spot in both countries on the same weekend, opening on 3,254 screens in North America and passing 1.61 million admissions at home in six days.
The director, actor Koo Kyo-hwan and the Japanese dub cast of the Korean thriller appeared on stage for the closing screening on November 4.
The film, shot in modern Tokyo, is set for release in summer 2027 after screening at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
Tadao Okada began acting at 88 and kept performing into his final years. A film by a Setouchi broadcaster's director follows him and the troupe that cast him.
The actor plays a fisherman who reaches out to children left to survive alone after the war, in the director's seventh feature.
A new film sends a 17-year-old from Saga to Korea to find one person, not to settle a history — and the Mainichi Shimbun's critic argues that is what makes it work.
The actor talks about playing Shikishima Koichi again in Godzilla -0.0, the pressure of following an Oscar-winning film, and what changed now that his character has a family.
The actor says he was told the Four Tops would never release a CD, and that pushed him toward a career mainly in acting.
Toho's kaiju film drew 590,000 people on its first day, the biggest opening day for any live-action film released in Japan, domestic or foreign.
The director of "Shindo" and "Kodomo no Kodomo" died on October 21, the Japan Writers Guild said.
